I need to know which part of the text is been modified by the user inside a Flex TextArea. I'm listening to TextArea's Event.CHANGE and my code run on everychange but i don't know what the user have done to the text and it's too long to process it again at every keypress or paste
We are still with Flex 3.5 but i may consider Flex 4 if the solution is easier.
want to know the index of the first character displayed in a scrollable TextArea in Flex3 and i need the last character's index too.
View 1 RepliesI have a number of very poor-quality pdf documents that look like 80's photocopies, which I'm rebuilding in Flash (Flex Builder 3 MXML application), representing paragraphs of text in TextAreas so that selected portions can be bold or italic, or whatever I need. I need a way to apply toolTips or event listeners to individual words within the block of text to link those words to a glossary. I'm perfectly happy to create a definition panel that is populated and made visible with a mouseOver, but don't know how to do it to just a portion of the text.
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to save text of textarea in some variable or so and with its textformat (more than one color) and then reuse it to replace text in textarea?
I tried saving htmlText of textarea but the problem is when i replace it in textarea <p> tags causes problem.There will always be another extra line.
Is it possible to save text of textarea (flash 10, as3, cs5) in some variable or so and with its textformat (more than one color) and then reuse it to replace text in textarea?
I tried saving htmlText of textarea but the problem is when i replace it in textarea tags causes problem. There will always be another extra line.
If anyone wants to view p tags problem try following. Just click on text and then move your down arrow key, cursor will go to next line.
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A little much put in the title, but my question is just that. I have the following AS3 code for my textarea...
addChild(Texta1);
Texta1.alpha = 0;
Texta1.blendMode = BlendMode.LAYER;
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Unfortunately, when I start placing text in this text area. Either through code or user input, the text will be placed on a new line after about 80-100 pixels. Yet I want it to start a new line after 320 pixels (it's length).
I have a perfectly working text based button positioned inside a movie clip and being called from the main time line.Then I decided to add a color changing effect on the up state of the button. Originally button had a static text for the Up, Dow, Over, Hit frames. As soon as I modified the text into a mc I am getting an error code:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at acolyte24A_fla::mainsite_mc_2/frame30()[acolyte24A_fla.mainsite_mc_2: :frame30:4]
Here is line 4 from frame 30:
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I have a string of text, but within this text I want to input a variable at a specific portion of the text. Now this string of text is taken from an XML file. So the XML file would look like this for example:
Code:
<name>Sweep</name>
<type>ATK</type>
<target>AoE-EN</target>
<caste>Warrior</caste>
<desc>"This is a text"+temp.alias+"hey"</desc>
The <desc> is an example of a way I tried to make it work. What I want to happen is when I display the desc in my flash file, it inputs the alias (which in the xml is the name) of the item. In PHP this could be doing using EVAL() but I notice the support for that type of function is removed in AS3.
When you select text in a Text or Label or TextArea (or other) control in a Flex application, the selection is shown in white text on a black background. Always.
I have a request to change that — and it seems to be a simple enough thing to want — but I can't find a style (or property) anywhere that permits that. Any ideas out there about how to do this, or reasons why it definitively can't be done?
TextArea in flex doesn't render <TABLE></TABLE>.
I want to display text in textarea in two columns. [code]...
Depending on text width in Column1 text in Column2 will be shifted. So all rows in Column2 are going to be aligned. How can I do this without html <table>?
As per my observation this does not work in flex4:
<mx:TextArea id="taMytext" text="
hi
san"/> //use of
does not work here
<s:Button label="Click it" click="Myfun()" />
Using script it's possible:
public function Myfun():void
{
taMytext.text="hi
";
taMytext.text+="san";
}
I want to create a small chatbox for my site. But I can't use text background in a textarea. I don't know if I should use textarea or something else. Some users can use background color on their own text. I tried the .background command with textarea but I think it does not support it.
View 1 RepliesI'm having trouble inserting smiley's and images into my chat, I want to put emote icons in my chat, but it keeps putting the images in front of the lines. I've seen it done on many webchat-systems, so it must be something simple, what am I doing wrong? I tried it in flex 4 with a richText field, and it worked fine with <s:img>, but my entiere code is in flash (AS3), i rather not rebuild all to flex.
View 2 Replieshow to select all the text in the textarea on a single click? For example, if I click on the textarea, I would like to select all the text in it or if I click on a button, I would like to select all the text in the textarea.
View 1 RepliesI have a movieclip with a TextArea inside it with the instance name writeUps_txt.The movieclip is added to the stage with actionscript and I want to set the text inside writeUps_txt after the movieclip is added to the stage.Why won't the following work?
infoPages[i].writeUps_txt.text = blurbs[i];
I've checked everything and all of my arrays contain the right objects so everything is kosher there. To add to the problem, this line:
infoPages[i].title_txt.text = locations[i];
does work and the only difference is that title_txt is dynamic text.Is there a difference between how dynamic text and textAreas behave in this regard?
I have a movieclip inside it is a textarea. It is in the libary and the MC is exported for actionscript as "bulletPoint".When trying to set the text I try [code]1119: Access of possibly undefined property text through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.is there a way to get this to work without giving the textarea a name? I would rather use getChildAt if possible.
View 1 RepliesI've got an action set to pull some information up on screen from a file.I'd like to find away to get the text to be White, Arial, Bold, and size 15... but i have no idea how! i've been trying to figure it out for over a week now and no luck at allBelow is my action.This is using ActionScript 3 in Flash CS3Code:
Code:
var externalReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("SYM.txt");
var externalLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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I want to add an event listener to each word inside the textarea. Is this possible?I have a function that shows a list of inventory items in a game I'm making. I put the list inside a textarea so that I can scroll through the inventory, but I want to be able to allow the user to click on each item. For Example:
Potion
Antidote
Sword
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Ok, so I've read up on the TextArea class in Livedocs, and i've been looking at XML explanations and their implementation into Flash for about a week. I've tried this EXACT code on another Flash document, except on the main stage instead of embedded inside of a
separate movie clip, and it worked perfectly. Can anyone explain why the text won't display in the TextArea? Does it have something to do with it being inside of a movieclip and that being placed on the Main Stage? (By the way, proxy.xml is just a copy of the xml produced by my CFM proxy for easier usage, in case you were wondering.
I am just starting to use the TextArea component in Flash CS3. How do I change the font size, style, and color of the text within the textarea? Can I also change the textarea background color from white to something else?
View 3 Repliesnow my requirement is that i need to make the background of textarea semi-transparent so that text could be read easily.the only problem is that setting the alpha property makes text transparent too
View 1 RepliesI am using a button to input text from a text input and displaying it in a text area using following code.
public function sendMessage():void
{
mytextarea.text = textinput.text;
textinput.text = "";
}
The problem I am facing is , whenever I add new line or others it replaces the previous text, I want the previous text in text area to stay there.
I'm importing text into a TextArea component and it all works fine and dandy.Though I want the textarea to not form a scrollbar but to actually just keep adjusting its height so there is never a scrollbar.I looked through all the properties and I have no idea what to test for to see if there is a scrollbar.
View 1 RepliesI found a thread on actionscript.org that showed a way to load functions from text in a dynamic text box. It works using "asfunction". I tried it and it worked.However, load that dynamic text into a TextArea component and it doesn't call the function anymore! Is there a way to do it?
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to save text of textarea in some variable or so and with its textformat (more than one color) and then reuse it to replace text in textarea? I tried saving htmlText of textarea but the problem is when i replace it in textarea <p> tags causes problem.
View 4 RepliesAny clues on how to have it so the text inside a textarea can be outlined, no matter what it is, through actionscript? Or some other sneaky way? I'm not talking about using the ink tool and such, a more complex way is what I'm looking for...
View 6 RepliesI am currently pulling in a series of RSS feeds into a series of TextAreas and am trying to style the fonts, both the Headings and the regular text. I am using
Code:
var styles = new TextField.StyleSheet();
styles.setStyle("p",
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I have text in a textArea component that I need to be clickable and open up the users email program.The text shows fine when I have this:infoBox.taEmail.text = xmlDataSelect.office[evt.target.selectedIndex];but I can not click on it, so I tried this:infoBox.taEmail.htmlText = "<A REF="mailto:"+xmlDataSelect.office[evt.target.selectedIndex].email+ "</U></A>";
View 2 RepliesI have an input_txt which is an instance of TextArea When I type into it and press enter it captures. I need to set the textarea empty. So its done as input_txt.text = ""; But doing like that the prompt stays at the second line since we press enter key. Is there a way to bring the prompt back to the beginning of the TextArea?
View 3 RepliesI'm using AS2 in Flash CS3.I have a TextArea component in the stage that's loading its text from an XML and I've been able to use the ul and li tags to create lists. However, when I try to include a nested list it just inserts a line break between the nested list and the main list rather than indent it further. Is there a solution for this issue?Failing that, how would I be able to add non-breaking spaces into the XML so they will render inside the TextArea component? I've tried and without success. I scoured the net for some help with this and found some information about modifying the font embedding xml file with a new entry for the non-breaking space and that didn't work either, so that leaves me somewhat stumped.
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